The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-01-15
OVER TIE STATE.

hnhllng III company with his brother
in-law, Mr. Rose, Oh MIR. Pierce's
farm, two miles east of Trimhle, nc
ridentalIy discharged both barre,'s Of
his gun into his neck aud head. He
was killed instantly.
Col w. NJ. johnson, grand report-
er Of the Knights Of Honor, resigned
chat position yesterday and Col.
Thomas w. Neal, grand dictator, ap.
pointed John l.. Nolen to Gil the VA,
cancy. Mr.. Nolen will assume the
duties of the position at cnce.-
Nashville Banner.
Alamo Sentinel: Henry Mitchell,
a popular young msn OF Gibson coun.
ty, and Miss Sammie Curtis, one of
AIamo's sweetest young ladies'. were
married at the residence of Z. 4Illing-
ton on the night of Decem her the 28th,
Rev. s. F. Chambers, of Gadsden,
performing the ceremony
According 20 published statistics
"King Cotton" must give way to the
little barn.yard pullet. The figures
show that for the year 1883 the val
ue of the poultry product of this coun-
try was $500 600, 1000, or about $40 to
every man, woman, and child, to say
nothing CT the amount imported.
This was $3.50, 900, 900 more than the
cotton production of that year.
Martin Mail: The negro boy who
has heen breaking into some of our
business houses at night quite freely
of late, was caught last Wednesday
A pistol stolen from the bank and
several watch chains taken from
Scots jewelry store were re overed.
He acknowledged the theft and was
taken to Jail. He will evidently &C
to Nashville to board and labor for
his country.
Rutherford Times: Messrs. Dinlin
u Son are preparing to market theil
immense crop of potatoes. Ruther.
ford county may he short on some
things hut she's long on potatoes
Just think of 10000 or $4,000 bush.
els of sweet potatoes i'll one pile
That was the biggest later patch
We ever saw. The junior Mr.. Dillin
tells US that he has been very success
full in their keep. The army of ne
groes that it took to harvest that croI
reminded us of the crowds of dar
kies we had seen in the cotton field
before the war.
The tone of those who grOwl 81
much about the penitentiary seems tt
presuppose that such institutions ar
intended as kind of pleasure .esor
-, and picnic rendezvous for the unfort
innate. The penitentiary ought to b.
hard, bad place, where men are sew
erely punished. The law ought t
provide hard punishment and shorte
terms. 1t ought to be so that mel
will dread to go there, ani when the,
do go there they ought to ne given
lesson that will reform them by fore
and then turn them out as soon a
possible and give them a chance I
make decent citizens.-Giles Demo
Graf.
Ripley Enterprise. Last Monda
night cOlored girl named Irene, VIII
nurses IN the family of Mr.. Kirkpat
rick, met with a terrible accident
which is now thought to prove fata
She slept in the room with the fam
", and it was her custom on retirin
to pile the CRATE full of coal and dra
her he'd close to the fire place. Ths
particular night the coal after takiu
fire rolled down on the he'd. Mrs. K
was awakened by the smoke, and cal
ed out.{ Irene that her bed was Q
fire. The glrl sprang up, and in 8
instant her night clothing was in
blaze. She screamed and ran int
another room, but Mr., K. seized h
and pushed her out of the room int
the open air and tore her burnin
garments from her body. Mr.. K.
hands were severely burned, but it
e,r,unata indeed that he was at home